Re: portforwarding question
Ralf,
That takes of this issue then. I added a port of my choosing to the
/etc/services and everything is working as expected.
Yesterday I did the same trial with forwarding port 80 to the
internal service. It was successful for me though, (of course my real
site was gone). Are you asking for help below? ;-)
Thanks for your generous help,
-Bill
Quoting "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:59:19 -0600, whbell@ia.net wrote:
>
> >You are correct in the assumption of using port 8080 below. That is
> >exactly what I am doing now, (it works great BTW!). Is 8080 the
>
> Nice for you. I also tried to forward port 80 to an internal host, but I
> wasn't as successful. The connection WAS forwarded, but the web server's
> reply didn't get thru?! :-(
>
> >correct port to use? Now that 8080 will be in use, can I just start
> >pulling ports out of the air for other web services, (that is if I
> >had any others)? I am not very "port smart" yet.
>
> In theory, yes. You should NOT use "well-known" ports for this purpose,
> however, i.e. those below 1024 and in use by standard services (see
> /etc/services for what might be in use by your system.) Another port that
> is sometimes used for http is 8888, but you could also use 4711 or 6969.
> Just be sure that you don't use ports that are used by other services
> running on your external machine.
>
> Ralf
>
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